by Treacy Ziegler (This is the second installment on kindness in prison. The first installment can be read at Incarceration of Kindness.) On my first trip to the super-maximum security prison, I see a high stonewall building perched over distant trees. There is something surreal in the sight of this fortress-like building with its small …
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The Incarceration of Kindness – Installment 1
by Treacy Ziegler This post is written in installments exploring what is understood as kindness in prison. In writing this post, I asked prisoners across the United States to share their experiences of kindness in prison. Kindness makes you idle, worse, unnatural. Douglas Oliver Richie is a student in my …
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